#ImWithSam Autism and Learning Disability Hate Crime campaign

The admirable learning disability and autism organisation Dimensions has recently launched a new campaign called #ImWithSam to raise awareness of, and tackle, autism and learning disability hate crime.

#ImWithSam will challenge government processes and tackle the root causes of autism and learning disability hate crime. The changes that Dimensions want to see have been developed following broad-based consultation and they consider will make a tangible difference.

3. The Department of Education to adapt resources to better support all primary and secondary schools with positive messages around difference.

4. Manufacturers to incorporate greater learning disability sensitivity into toys, games and other children’s entertainment.

5. The Department of Health to develop simple guidance to help families and support workers identify and manage cases of hate crime.

6. The Crown Prosecution Service to improve investigation protocols within the criminal justice system in situations where there is a learning disabled victim.

7. The Home Office to improve resources and training for police officers and others to help them when receiving a report of hate crime from a person with a learning disability or autism, including funding self-advocates to provide specialist victim support.

8. Together, Dimensions and their campaign partners will evaluate the effectiveness of new coercive behaviour legislation on people with learning disabilities or autism, leading to specific change recommendations and/or a green paper recommendation on stronger legislation to protect vulnerable people from mate crime.

— (1) There is no power to impose conditions in a CTO which have the effect of depriving a patient of his liberty. (2) The patient's situation may be relevant to the tribunal's discharge criteria, and the tribunal may explain the true legal effect of a CTO (for the RC to act on that information), […]

— See Court of Protection User Group for information about the group. Contact Tolu Somade, Business Support Officer to HHJ Hilder (tolulope.somade@Justice.gov.uk) to confirm attendance at the meeting. Time: 2pm. Note change of date (previously was 23/4/19)

— "This case came before me on 23 April 2018 for the purpose of considering whether to approve the proposed settlement of a personal injuries action reached between the Claimant's Litigation Friend (his mother) and the Third and Fourth Defendants. The settlement required the approval of the court pursuant to CPR Part 21.10 because the […]

— "The Registrar of Criminal Appeals has referred this application for permission to appeal against conviction and sentence to the Full Court. The application concerns the scope of the offence created by s 44(2) read, in this case, with s 44(1)(b) of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 ('MCA 2005) of which the Appellant was convicted. […]